Anugerah Auditions 09/05/09

Our dear fauzie was off this weekend to Port Dickson so he sent me to East point mall to check out and snoop around for the 2nd round of Anugerah.



The competition started in the morning but I only reached around 12pm when the sun was directly over my head.
I kinda got a suprise, not of the good kind, when i stepped inside the mall.

For those who came last week for the first round of Anugerah, you will notice that the space
in front of the stage was quite spacious.. and audiences can get a good clear view of the stage and also of the contestants.
But for this round, they cut the space into half, and the other half were for some vendors who was selling health supplements and such.
Security was put in place so that if you weren't buying, you can't go beyond the point.
That was at least acceptable as people can stand outside the perimeter to watch.

As the afternoon droned on, as the contestants belted out their song choices in their bid to be one the top 50, the viewing space also got smaller and smaller, finally closing off the audiences from the stage view.
The people in charge sort of deliberately put their standing poster in front of the barrier so that people were forced to move away and not crowd their space.

And they kept putting more and more until the audience were completely cut off.
I don't really get it why they have to have the sale right there when they know that eastpoint is going to be packed with people.
*shakes head*

I can tell you, there were a few gungho pakciks and makciks who looked like they can start a fight.
haha.

takpelahh, sabar aje laaarr.

Off to the 2nd floor where it was just as packed. Snapped a few pics here and there.

Atmosphere was good and happening, cheers were given to the contestants who managed to pull of their songs with their tarik's and dance steps.

Oh yeaa, i digressed.
Supposed to talk about contestants right?
Okay, i took a couple of photos and videos of those who caught my attention.

As per ms manager, the most sung song was definitely Mungkir bahagia and quite a few fazli zainal's, didicazli's and also mawi's were also crooned.
Some of them were realllly good, the kind that would send goosebumps up your spine.
The ladies were very fond of dato' siti's songs and also takdir cinta.

However, some of the voices were very whispery, they got drowned out by the music. That definitely didn't get the thumbs-up from the judges from what I hear.
One female contestant, wearing a simple black dress, got up the stage with much confidence and belted out Gemilang - Jaclyn Victor and wooooweeee, she brought the house down.

I loved her.
Like I said, some were reallly good, some were whispery, some forgot the lyrics which I think is a big no-no at this point of the competition.

One by one, they went on stage and sang to keep their dreams alive.
Eventually, the last contestants sang at 9.10pm. Results were supposed to be at 7.30pm originally.

But I think it went overrun simply because some of the contestants had to start over due to technical faults, Some cd's cant be played and stuffs, it took quite a bit of time.

Finally Fiza O and KC went on stage to arrange the contestants into rows.
Hmmmm,
this one took another additional 1.15hrs. Not saying that it was bad organisation. They were calling the contestants in batches and then arranging them in rows.
264 contestants in rows in the little space that they have, doesn't sound easy right?

They had to constantly ask the audience to make way for the contestants.
Yes, all that took 1.15hrs.

By the time, it was 10.30pm, lights were switching off one by one.
Pakciks, makciks were getting more impatient and shouting at the poor hosts.
"results maner nii..", "tak tahu ke kiter tinggal jauh.."
relax laar cik.. taxi kan ader.. :P

Finally Eddie Ali came out with the results at about 10.40pm.

50 contestants, 25 female and 25 males out the originally 264 shortlisted ones were chosen to continue the next day.
It was quite sad to see few good ones getting booted out, but oh well, better luck next year!
A few familiar faces were in the top 50. Some had joined the previous Anugerah(s) and were probably looking for more luck in going further this year.

Well, I've come to the end of my post.
I'll hand over the blogpen to Fauzie now.

Don't forget to catch JUS on 18thMay to see who the top 20 will be continuing on in the hopes of achieving their dreams.

Till then!
Cheers! =)